How do records work?
Moment Of Um
Lemonada Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Records are big flat discs with circular lines on them that you can use to play music. But how does a record work, anyway? We asked audio engineer Josh Bonati to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um. |
| 0:07.1 | Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um. |
| 0:10.4 | Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Joy Dolo, aka DJ Dolo. |
| 0:16.9 | Um. |
| 0:31.1 | Um. You might know me as the host of Forever Ago, the most awesome history podcast for kids in the world, but I'm also an aspiring DJ. |
| 0:38.3 | Last weekend, I DJed a birthday party for my friend's Chihuahua, and it was incredible. I brought all my favorite dog records, you ain't nothing but a hound dog, Snoop Dog's greatest |
| 0:43.3 | hits, and of course, who let the dogs out? |
| 0:46.3 | Who? |
| 0:47.3 | Who? |
| 0:48.3 | Who? |
| 0:49.3 | Great song. |
| 0:50.3 | All the pups went wild when I played that one. |
| 0:53.3 | When I spin, I go old school. I don't use computers or even CDs. I use |
| 0:58.4 | vinyl records. They're like big black flat plates. Here, want to see how it works? You just slap a record |
| 1:05.3 | on this special machine called a turntable and it spins them around. Then you place this little arm from the record player onto the record, and somehow it makes |
| 1:15.7 | music. |
| 1:16.7 | I don't know exactly how it makes music. |
| 1:19.4 | It just does. |
| 1:20.9 | My buddy Ruby wanted to know about this, too, so he asked someone who knows a lot about |
| 1:24.8 | records. |
| 1:31.9 | Music we ask someone who knows a lot about records. Hi, my name is Josh Benati. |
| 1:33.8 | I live in Brooklyn, New York, and I'm a audio engineer. |
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